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Etymology

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phone +‎ cam

Noun

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phonecam (plural phonecams)

  1. A camera built into a mobile phone.
    • 2003, Scott B. Guthery, Mary J. Cronin, Developing MMS Applications:
      Sending a picture taken with a phonecam as MMS may be fun on occasion, but sending thousands or millions of pictures is not the work of a casual user.
    • 2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156:
      Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.

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